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61mech:
Jees dude .
You need to show this vid to someone who had served in a modern 1st world military. If I were their Co., there would be some NCO's running around flipping truck tires for the afternoon. Don't get upset now , but i'm just going to point out a couple of things.

1. ZERO and I mean ZERO camp discipline. In an operational area of all places ! I see guys walking around like they are on RnR hanging laundry. 2/3's of them are walking around without their weapons at arms reach. Not a SINGLE one wearing any type of webbing/combat gear with ammo. I wonder if their officers even camp with them.

2. Guys standing on top of vehicles goofing around. Do you know what HE does when it hits hard armor ? I don't see anyone manning the guns keeping watch over that laager.

3. Personnel walking around in flip flops and civvie t-shirts. If I need to explain to you why this is wrong, I really hope you're not in any type of command position for your troop's sake.

4. Zero attempt at any type of camouflage of their positions. That bright orange dump truck in the middle of your position would make for a excellent aiming point for my mortar spotter. Christ, even ISIS smears mud on their Toyotas to hide the civvy paintjobs.

5. Absolutely no noise discipline in that camp. A patrol should be able to walk in the bush within 50m of your platoon and not know you're there.

6. Zero organisation of personnel. Everyone is standing around in groups having a chat and "vlegging piele". Mortar shrapnel and gpmg gunners love big groups of people standing around, not to mention snipers.

Vehicles should parked in laager, pointing outwards with personnel spread out EVENLY in their squads between them with fields of fire assigned by their NCO's beforehand. They should be in semi dug in positions with all eyes facing outwards. If you're going to take off your webbing, at least have it within reach along with your weapon for christ sake. Turrets/radio's manned by troops on watch.
No more than 3 people standing in a group and NO smoking at night.
Mortar pits should be dug, supplied and manned. You need to fire Ilum within seconds of an attack at night.

All these things to be observed at all times, whether at training facility, or in area of operations. NO exceptions. People died learning and re-learning these lessons.

Feel free to be pissed at my assessment. Try and find a military professional in any quality infantry organization to disagree with any of my observations and I'll type you an apology.

Oh my God his "over sabii" dey worry you nii or you know watch the video well. Okay let me break it down to you.

- 1st that place his not an operational area or base, it's a place they come to just source of water to do laundry and watch the hardwares. And for heaven sake they where busy with cleaning and laundry when the BHT sneaked behind. So how could you wear ur gear/webbing only few that where securing the perimeter where with gear,webbing and their firearms.

- watch the video there some manning guns /technicals. That's a normal military precaution some will always be on guard and alert and that is why they where able to repel the nursed fuckers.

- personnel walking in flip flop, for heaven sake you av being watching too much of war/action movies. On the real battle ground amidst of the heat on the front troops still must av time to relax, av fun and cool there brain and entire system or else you will av physiological or mental break down. But amidst of these always be on guard and alert.

- the bright orange truck his for the vigilante working hand in hand with our troops, even perfect fly camouflage vehicles get hit in well blended terrain. And that's why in the middle of other military vehicles. Any attempt on one of those military convoys his giving away there positions, BHT is not that dum.....

- too much of movies again, his possible for that number or gathering of soldiers not to make noise. Or even the crank noise made by the military vehicles.

- and please you just showed your level of knowledge on such matters. Am sorry I do not mean to make you feel bad, it takes an experienced army to repel such attack and those soldiers did a very good work by not allowing the enemy to break into there defensive positions. Even developed armies of the world take fall victim of friendly fire, for a large scale offensive in the N.E.

And big UPS for the military camera man capturing such moment, it shows that our army is growing .

#CION

Katyusha:
Unfortunately, a soldier was killed by friendly fire..

Harsh side of the realty of war.

Katyusha:
Oga bidexii, is this not the video you uploaded some time ago?

NOP!

Henry240:
If you don't view this video, you have no business discussing any topics on any African military.

Highlights


- The guy on the Reva MRAP, "screaming na suffer oh!". He said " when you guys see us on T.V eating food, you'll think we are enjoying, but "na die-hard we dey here so".


* LMAO @ Suicide cameraman


- when they came under fire, there was this particular guy who was walking calmly with RPG tubes, i wonder why he did that.


- NA grandpa Vickers broke-down and had to be towed by another Vickers.


- I particularly like the defensive position NA vehicles take as soon as clearing positions begin, very tact.


- NA Pick-up trucks are so well armed. The Hilux is now an integral part of NA mobility, it's good to see the army arming them with HMGs and the provision of a ballistic shield for the gunner.


- Another interesting thing is, despite the fact they are on operations, NA instructors still put soldiers through their paces in marksmanship. Even commandos are not left out, everybody practices marksmanship. Very beautiful, i've ever seen this with other militaries.


- The importance of LUH, such as the A109 cannot be under-estimated, from bring supplies to troops, spare tires for vehicles to taking freed hostages. The A109 has proven to be an integral asset.



In all, there are still multiple improvements that can be made, however no military can have it all. Only if we can invest in more IFVs to support the Tanks and MRAPs.

Hahahaaaaaaaaaa....... I now believe you av totally fell in love with the video..

I never knew u noticed also;" soldier carrying RPG rounds so calm,walking when they ar even under attack and I saw other solders.jumping and taking cover......

My conclusion is that soldier has seing a lot of battles and has a lot of close shave with death.... What do u think!

#AFSF

olapluto:
Top top video. This is the 1st real tactical vid seen of the front line. The army seems to have properly adjusted to the BHT tactics. I particularly like and admire how the commander was in full control of the camp, while also mingling well with the boys. Impressive.

Me also...
And another thing I would like to say, his these soldiers go through a lot. That is why sometimes you pattern the kind of ur military training in accordance to ur terrain/enviroment. There is these popular saying amongst our troops that when;" you train hard you fight easy". I can't imagine these soldiers after fighting hard they av to dig to get water inside that evil part of the forest, you dig trenches for protection and for training/marksmanship everything under the harsh weather inside Sambisa.

God bless our troops and God's speed......

Henry240:
I thoroughly enjoyed the video!

It was not a friendly fire, we had one KIA. The soldiers were shouting RPGs shouldn't be fired, that we had guys in-front repelling the attacks.


I thought know person noticed that, our defensive parameters show that the Nigerian army is a well trained, well organised for. No amount of media propaganda can take that away. I just wish we had more IFVs though.


The defensive parameters were well organised and spaced just like you see in all British army videos.


The videos shows the importance of Light Utility Helicopters in operations. That guy came from Bama, he flew from Bama to Sambisa, then back to Bama, then to the Air Base.


Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Wow.i.never noticed an RPG, was fired.

On the IFV I wish the same also but there is something I know for sure it's a matter of time both tracked and wheeled IFV will be added. We've lost a lot of brave men which could av being averted if they had being riding in IFV. IFV had more fire power and protection of men and also support our MBT from rockets/RPG.

Henry240:
I love our military, it's beginning to feel like a sickness!!!



I would have been so angry if i were from any other country in Africa but Nigeria.


God bless our military!!!

I can't stop.laughing..........

giles14:
I totally agree with u was a great enlightenment.

but 4 things disappointed me.
1.d Vickers tanks we need to replace dem
2.d destruction of grains wen we have starving n malnourished children in IDP camps
3.lack of proper communication gadgets eg firing on advanced troops which if der was good radio communication would b avoided.
4.lastly d Augusta 109 light skin choppers have no business dere.d commander towards d end was speaking of d chopper being fired at.dis ought to b d job of d super puma or maybe d mi17.


over all it was nice seeing d stuff our troops was made of.
more of dis videos are needed pls.

I agree with u hernry on the video and am proud of our frontline troops.

I agree with you giles14 but what do you do when you are shot of the proper assets. What's make you excel in what ever you do is not much and better things you av available to you but how good you make of the little you have.

Even the developed army can't av it all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08DbZjmm7hs

Guys you must watch these video, tester night when I finished downloading it, I just skipped through the video because it's about 43 mind video.

It shows every thing about the lives of troops in sambisa forest & CION.

At the beginning of the video soldiers where digging for water when they came under fire by BHT but they repelled the attack. Accidentally it looks like there was a friendly fire or a soldier being mistakenly ran of by a MBT.

Another part of the video I like is the tactical movement in which troops move inside Sambisa and the position of the MBT,MRAPs and Gun trucks are stationed in area of operation in case of attack.

And in the video, it shows how the NAF helps.in logistics supplies and evacuation of rescued civilians through air assets. A Lot of things you get to see in the video.

Big ups @fynline for these.....!

National Guard Apache helicopter is stuck in the mud after an emergency landing in the Baytown area overnight. https:///P0F42iY6p0

Henry240:
Nigerian Air Force MI-24V Attack Helicopter

Boko Haram: "Shekau is dead," - Nigerian Army insist -


http://scholarspost.com/boko-haram-shekau-is-dead-nigerian-army-insist

Henry240:
On closer inspection, I don't think that's a Nigerian boat. The sailors look Israeli to me.

That's a NN vessel.

-firstly the naval personnel on the vessel are all black personnels,though the picture is somehow blunt but look closely very well.

- those personnel are wearing the traditional light navy blue on dark blue, the Israeli navy either wear the white on white or light brown on light brown on ship.

- then the NN has these tradition of arming the light vessel and gun boats with grenade launchers, which is visible in the front.

#AFSF

Henry240:
Malaysian and Kuwati F/A-18 hornets training alongside the JF-17 in Kuwait.

Tnks.

jakeporeshenko:
The boat captain vex ? Is this one of those isreali made shaldag patrol boats ?

.. . The captain dey paraa

Fynline:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08DbZjmm7hs

Have you guys seen this video? i tot i had, just stumbled on it

Just finished downloading it nice video.

Nigeria Navy

"Meanwhile, the JF-17 was spotted training alongside and F/A-18 Hornet"

@henry please where was these...?

Litmus:
Thought JF17's are due third quarter...

Surely they must arrive these month.....IJN

Henry240:
The Air Force said, August/ September. We'll have to wait and see.


Meanwhile, the JF-17 was spotted training alongside and F/A-18 Hornet.

Can't wait for those birds and choppas, to come. Those bokos haven't seing anything yet compared to what is to come. The NAF is doing a very good job bombarding BHT camps.

And also I can't wait to see the airforce releasing the jf17 video aerial bombing.

Army: Forget Boko Haram’s videos, ‘original Shekau’ and ‘second Shekau’ are both dead

https://www.thecable.ng/army-forget-boko-harams-videos-original-shekau-and-second-shekau-are-both-dead

#TROOPERS....

Henry240:
You guys should quite all the sentiments. This is simply the cost of war. Armies are set up not for us to post photos of them online posing, but to fight battles and win wars. The loss of personnel not withstanding, it is bound to happen.

Better now than never. Islamic terrorism was bound to reach Nigeria whether we approved of it or not, neither would the sparing the life of the murderous Mohammed Yusuf have change our current trajectory.


War was always going to come to us. Luckily we have a strong, equipped and experienced military by African standards to tackle this problem.


No harm done.

No sentiments here dude, am just wowed by that amount, what if Nigeria is not a oil producing state.
What about other expenses on military vehicles, repair and maintenance, every bomb and rocket fired and drop ed on BHT, logistics...etc. the list is endless.

And yet the present CAS is still doing a lot on infrastructure, bringing back old inserviceabled hardware back to life and training of airforce personnel overseas....etc.

NIGERIAN AIR FORCE AIRCRAFT ATTACKED BOKO HARAM LEADERSHIP LOCATION AT TUMBUN REGO IN NORTHERN BORNO
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF), in a series of another well-coordinated air operations conducted on 29 August 2016, successfully attacked a Boko Haram Terrorist (BHT) camp at Tumbun Rego in Northern Borno where some wounded commanders of the notorious sect were believed to be receiving treatment. Intelligence report has it that some BHT commanders, who survived the air assault on the night of 20 August 2016 leading to the death of over 300 insurgents, had sustained serious injuries and were said to have relocated subsequently to the Camp at Tumbun Rego for medical treatment. The latest strike followed the trail of this piece of intelligence to neutralise these suspected leaders of the sect who are high value targets. While the NAF is yet to ascertain the casualty figure, post-strike Battle Damage Assessment mission shows that the degree of damage achieved was devastating as the buildings were engulfed by large fire as can be seen from the declassified video of the air operation.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnTCYc4xhZU

BlackBaron:
^^ The reason why war is expensive. That sum excludes hazard pay, food, maintenance, weapons and ammo.

Better off nipping the bud than spend billions in trying to correct avoidable scenarios like BH and ND militants.

Multiplying that figure with 12 months that is running into billions,aircrafts alone. what about vehicles,equipment,logistics, maintenance,......etc

What if Nigeria is not an oil producing state.....?

.....

#NN DIVERS

NAF spend N475m monthly to fuel jets & other aircraft.

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) spends N475 million monthly to fuel its fighter jets and transport planes to fight Boko Haram.
The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, said in Lagos yesterday that the force uses 1.9 million litres of aviation fuel monthly to fly missions in the North-East, the hotbed of Boko Haram insurgency. Aviation fuel sells for N250 per litres, meaning that at least, N475 million is spent on a monthly basis.
He spoke during the opening of the 2016 Logistics seminar organsed by the NAF’s Logistics Command.
Giving other breakdown, he said: “So we are talking of about 10, 000 litres just for one aircraft time. We have so many other airplanes like the Alpha jets which consume 2, 400 litres per hour. They also fly in formation and that means about 4, 800 litres a day. There are other planes that fly on a daily basis.”
Air Marshal Abubakar said to ensure  the force build capacity in logistics planning, the hierarchy of the NAF has embarked on training and retraining of its personnel within and outside Nigeria, especially as logistics play a very vital role in the success or failure of military operations.
He said the NAF has consistently sought ways of standardising her logistics procedures and operations in line with current global best practices.
While explaining that the Air Force must put together a carefully planned strategy not only for the movement of equipment and personnel to the theatre of war, the NAF chief said this was important if the current security challenges  must be properly addressed.
He said: “It is only when we get the strategy right that we can hope to effectively and efficiently deploy air power necessary for addressing the challenges facing Nigeria. To support air operations in the North-East, the NAF must put an excellent plan that will ensure availability of aviation fuel in the operational area.
Earlier, the Federal Government said yesterday it will continue to support the military to end insurgency and militancy. Minister of Defence, Brig. Gen. Mansur Dan Ali (retd) said President Muhammadu Buhari is eager to end violent crimes.
He was represented by the Permanent Secretary in the Defence Minstery, Amb. Danguma Sheni.
Meanwhile, the NAF said yesterday its fighter jets have destroyed a new Boko Haram camp in Borno State. The camp, located between Malam Fatori and Kangarwa in northern part of the state, is about six kilometres from the location of another facility attacked on August 20 by fighter jets, killing over 300 insurgents.
A statement by the Director Public Relations and Information, Group Captain Ayodele Famuyiwa, said the post-strike Battle Damage Assessment (BDA) mission conducted by the Air Force had revealed that some surviving Boko Haram members had converged at the new location, prompting the latest strike.
Famuyiwa said the air assault will further “degrade the capability of the insurgents while fostering the creation of the necessary enablement for ground troops to operate”.
Meanwhile, the #BringBackOurGirls (BBOG) campaign group has accused President Buhari of allowing members of the Boko Haram terrorists to determine the release of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls.
This is even as police again yesterday barred the BBOG from gaining access into the Presidential Villa, Abuja to seek audience with Buhari.
The group, which is continuing with its 14 days strategic engagement, criticised the President for his statement at the just-concluded sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI), in Kenya, where he suggested his willingness to swap the girls for Boko Haram detainees.
The group also condemned the President’s call on the terrorists to engage an international Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) if they so wish.
Coordinator of the BBOG, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili, who made this known during a peaceful march by the group to the Villa in Abuja yesterday, wondered why the President was giving so much powers to the terrorists who have continued to wreak havoc in some parts of the country to determine the fate of the girls.
She said: “We fail to understand why our Federal Government is giving so much powers to determine the process and first mover actions to the terrorists.
According to her, “Mr. President suggested a willingness to swap our girls for Boko Haram fighters preferring that the terrorists engage an international Non-Governmental Organization in the intermediation process if they so wish.
His words as reported were, “If they [the terrorists] do not want to talk to us directly, let them pick an internationally recognized Non-Governmental Organisation, convince them that they are holding the girls and that they want Nigeria to release a number of Boko Haram leaders in detention, which they are supposed to know.”.
She commended the courage and gallantry of the military in the frontline, the Multinational Joint Task Force, and the Civilian JTF, for their bravery, urging them to remain resilient.

Boko Haram ready for peace, will announce Chibok girls' whereabouts in 24hours - Aisha Wakil


One of the trio declared wanted by the Nigerian Army for concealing information on the whereabouts of the Chibok girls, Aisha Alkali Wakil, has revealed that the Boko Haram terrorist group is now ready for peace.

According to her, the group may make a big announcement about the kidnapped Chibok school girls within the next 24 hours.

The lawyer with the National Human Rights Commission told the Nation that, “Since I came back, I have been on their neck.

“They have now agreed to come out and discuss with the government and bring back the girls.

“I am for the Chibok girls and all the captives. They are ready for peace. This is what they told me.

“I think they might post some information on YouTube within 24 hours,” Aisha stated.

This is coming barely one week after President Muhammadu Buhari said his government was ready to negotiate with genuine Boko Haram leaders  to release the missing school girls.

Just read a very interesting news on NTA news now; the scroll bar that normally runs when different news is going on ;- that Nigeria military just acquired some equipment that has the capability of detecting and demining I.E.D